Apparatus for making covered cord.



No. 734,508. A PATENTBD JULY 28, 1903..

A. c. GHNBR. APPARATUS POR ING COVERED CORD.

APLICATION FILED 4JAN. 3. 1903. I

N0 MODEL.

I @A AW yada/umm UNITED STATES Patented July 2s, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING COVERED CORD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters fatent No. 7 24,508, dated July 28, 1903.

Application iiled January 3, 1903. Serial No. 137,653. (No model.)

To all whom iv' may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT CARL BUSCH- NER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of 5 New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Making Covered Cord, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved ap- 1o paratus for making covered cords composed x a plan of my improved apparatus with the hook omitted; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the draw-head; and Fig. 3 a section on line 3 3, Fig. 2.

The letter a represents a cylindrical stazo tionary draw-head adapted to be secured to a support b by a strap ot. At one end a circumferential flange. a2 projects beyond the head, such flange being provided with anumber of uniformly spaced perforations as.

2 5 The head is made with an axial bore for the reception of a removable tube c, having a hanged mouthpiece c', which is surrounded by the flange a2 of head a.. By replacing the tube c with one having a greateror less bore 5o the apparatusis adapted for the manufacture of thicker or thinner cords.

d represents the spools for carrying the covering-threads A, and e the spools for carrying the core-threads B, the latter being 3 5 placed between the former and all the spools facing the flanged end a2 of the head a. The spools d are rotatable in a pair of laterallyarranged inclined fixed frames d', and the spools c are rotatable in a third xed frame 4o e', arranged centrally between the two lianking frames d'. The cotton or other core threads B are conducted from spools e through a' thread-gatherer f, arranged centrally between the frames d', into the flanged end c' of a tube c. The silk or other covering threads A arev conducted from spools d through the holes a? of flange a2, likewise into tube c, so as to be laid around and form a jacketn that completely covers the corethreads. The core and covering threads thus assembled wlthin'head a are after leaving the latter grasped by a hook g, which is placed at a considerable distance from the head, and are drawnthrough the same, sol

that they will become tightly packed together and form a compound cord. A number of the cords or strands thus formed are twisted together to form a rope. Motion may be imparted to hook g by a winch g and rope g2 passing over pulley g3.

It will be seen that in my improved apparatus the core threads and the coveringthreads are so conducted to the draw-head that core and covering are properly formed and that the threads are free to converge Without interfering with each other.

.What I claim is- In an apparatus for making covered cords, a perforated stationary draw-head having a cylindrical perforated flange, combined with a pair of flanking inclined spoolcarrying frames, a central spool-carrying frame, and a thread-gatherer arranged intermediate the 'flanking frames, substantially as specified.

Signed by me at New York, N. Y., this 2d day of January, 1903.

ALBERT CARL BUSCHNER. Witnesses:

WILLIAM SCHULZ, F. v. BRIESEN. 

